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Originally Posted by serial
With the new law just passed in Sweden, the Swedish authorities have said that anything encrypted will be treated as suspicious. They have one of the top 500 super computers in the world ready for key breaking. Computer power and storage is so immense now that current encryption is nothing for those governments with the money and interest to break it.
And if you send something today they can't decrypt, then most likely they will store it until they can.
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I don't think anyone should worry too much about super computers trying to break crypto systems. It is far easier for the police to kick a door down and apply the thumb screw technique rather than waste time trying to break an impossible to break cipher. Btw the simplest method to break the private key problem is to break into a vulnerable operating system and plant a trojan, that is far more likely to happen.
BUT and it's a big but... Anyone with nothing to hide should not worry about what super spook agencies like NSA may or may not do. Simple encryption will stop Phorm or casual and organised profilers dead in their tracks. Phorm are looking to parasite an easy problem to crack (plain text with layer 7 DPI)
It would be interesting to hear what thoughts 'Relakks' managing director has to say about these developments.